Associations to the word «Flushed»

Wiktionary

FLUSHED, adjective. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
FLUSHED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of flush

Dictionary definition

FLUSHED, adjective. Having the pinkish flush of health.
FLUSHED, adjective. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope